Avant visual identity agency blueprinting brands
We have a passion for lifestyle, fashion & music brands.
Whether you're a fashion, wellness, travel, adventure, ecomm, food, or drink brand, you need a powerful brand identity, relatable high-quality content, and repeatable marketing and advertising campaigns to continue scaling your business online.
As a team whose work is responsible for bringing in over 36 million new followers and over 1 billion video views for our clients combined, we know a thing or two about creating iconic, viral-worthy brands that translate to massive dollar signs.
Focus
Portfolio
Pizza Hut, Jamba Juice, Sony Music, Columbia Records, Saban Music Group, Blue Note NYC, Sony Hall, Cameo, MWWPR, Trove Wine + Market, Affordable CBD Initiative, Crescent Communication, The Echo Society, The Newsette, CAD Management, Laugh Traffic, LiveSounds, ShoCast, Present PR and many musicians ranging from Lennon Stella, Hey Violet, Rob Simonsen, Static & Ben El Tavori, Lara Downes, The Aston Shuffle, Tall Heights & more.
Our Mood Reel
A short video that creates the mood / promo for our agency. Learn more and see all of our great works here:
https://app.pitch.com/app/presentation/5d881c33-b733-4959-a94d-353d1d752...
Reviews
the project
Design Support for Marketing & Management Firm
"They’ll impact everybody they work with, and I’ve certainly seen that throughout my time working with them."
the reviewer
the review
A Clutch analyst personally interviewed this client over the phone. Below is an edited transcript.
Introduce your business and what you do there.
I run a marketing and management firm called Scorpion LTD. I’m the co-founder and current VP.
What challenge were you trying to address with AUSTERE?
We needed a really dynamic bunch of image, branding, and web assets not only for ourselves but also for our clients. We went to AUSTERE looking for an all-in-one solution for those issues.
What was the scope of their involvement?
We’ve been working steadily with AUSTERE across at least a dozen projects ranging from a single app that they use to campaign-level tasks to motion graphics, video assets, and still assets. We’ve really done a lot with the team at this point.
What is the team composition?
Right now, there is a team of three helping us, with Natasha (CEO & Chief Creative) as the designer and creative director.
How did you come to work with AUSTERE?
I heard about AUSTERE from an internship group. Natasha was kind enough to meet with me in New York City, so I drove up there and we have been working together since.
How much have you invested with them?
We’ve spent somewhere between $5,000–$7,000 altogether.
What is the status of this engagement?
Our partnership started in January 2020 and is ongoing.
What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?
AUSTERE has been a critical element in us being able to service our clients who need any kind of visual branding. The quality of their work is the reason I continue to engage with them.
How did AUSTERE perform from a project management standpoint?
AUSTERE always comes to the table with multiple different ways for us to stay in touch, and Natasha is extremely good at project management and communication. They use Slack, but I’m very old school so I prefer to use email.
What did you find most impressive about them?
There are designers everywhere that are pretty good at doing this kind of work, but what sets AUSTERE apart is the fact that Natasha is somebody who, as an individual and as a creative director, brings value to medium-sized agencies just through what she can do by herself. She has structured an agency around that and has hired people who are at a similar skill level. It’s just changed the whole dynamic of our partnership to the point where they’ve become indispensable.
I think when you have an agency that is such a stellar provider, there’s a tendency that they’ll impact everybody they work with, and I’ve certainly seen that throughout my time working with them.
Are there any areas they could improve?
They need to get bigger in order for us to go to them for everything.
Do you have any advice for potential customers?
Spend the money to do it the right way. AUSTERE is not trying to make 1000% profit on any project, but if they are a team that’s flexible enough to work with people at different levels so you need to pay for the privilege of that service. It’s not cheap, but it's affordable and the value they deliver far outweighs the price tag.